Watching the 3 Davids, Max, Marc and Jeff talk social at LeWebsays Marc Canter 'open is the new black' - and asks about the Open Stacksays @daveman692 google, yahoo, microsoft all building on the open stack - won't FaceBook become the underdog when openness wins?Canter suggets OpenID will be the brand that ties the Open stack togethermax of MySpace "what we're doing with these standards is moving the web forward - when the web hits a roadblock it routes round it"max of MySpace:"90% of our users think of themselves as URLs so OpenID is a natural fit for us"Dave Glazer: the goal is to let users do anything they want to, with others, anywhere on the web. OpenID lets you log in anywhereDave Glazer: openSocial solves a different bit of the puzzle - JS APIs to run the same app in different social contexts REST APIs web to websays @daveman692 the web is designed to be distributed, and the Open Stack fits this modelJeff of Microsoft: live mesh is built on symmetric sync - supports Open Stack, OpenID shipping, OAuth looks good, support PortableContactsJeff of Microsfot: we're evaluating the OpenSocial gadget containerMarc canter "we're putting all our balls into ev williams vice"Jeff: we offer lots of languages. Marc: lots of ways to put our balls in your viceMax: we support OpenID, Oauth, OpenSocial but you can tooMarc: anything good for the Open Web is good for GoogleMarc Canter wants a URL for each Gmail? DG: each one does have that, but only you can see itDave Glazer: there are 3 classes of information: Public, Private and Complicated - users should never be surprised by who can see whatsays @davemorin facebook wants people to have a social context wherever they gosays @davemorin FaceBook had to create a Dynamic Privacy model for FB Connect @daveman692 calls shenanigans - LJ had those in 1999asks @daveman692 of @davemorin why are you giving microsoft access to all our email addresses wihtout asking permission?Max of MySpace - we've shown that security and openness work together by using OAuth, and can revoke them from in MySpaceDave Glazer: need to separate the technical levers from the social customs. technology can't stop people putting your bizcard on the websays @techcrunch "call bullshit on facebook" - broke integration with google. FB don't want an open stack, they may be forced into itsays @tommorris how can MS be on the panel after the debacle of Office OOXML which wasn't open or XML?says @dave500hats could we get contacts with certain features eg tennis fans?Dave Glazer: there's an open spec process to define new attributes in the spec - if you want to add one go and propose it

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Are you joking, darmik? David Recordon is on the OpenID foundation board, and Google, MySpace , Sixapart and Microsoft all ship OpenID providers, with Google Friend Connect being an OpenID RP. You can try it out to the right on this blog - log in with your OpenID.

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Kevin Marks works on IndieWeb and open web tech. From 2011 to 2013 he was VP of Open Cloud Standards at Salesforce. From 2009 to 2010 we was ay BT as VP of Web Services. From 2007 to 2009, he worked at Google on OpenSocial. From 2003 to 2007 he was Principal Engineer at Technorati responsible for the spiders that make sense of the web and track millions of blogs daily. He has been inventing and innovating for over 20 years in emerging technologies where people, media and computers meet. Before joining Technorati, Kevin spent 5 years in the QuickTime Engineering team at Apple, building video capture and live streaming into OS X. He was a founder of The Multimedia Corporation in the UK, where he served as Production Manager and Executive Producer, shipping million-selling products and winning International awards. He has a Masters degree in Physics from Cambridge University and is a BBC-qualified Video Engineer.One of the driving forces behind microformats.org he regularly speaks at Conferences and Symposia on emergent net technologies and their cultural impact.